According to a Filipino delegate to the 2005 ECPAT international conference, when the fathers of Kopinos return to South Korea, most of them stop contacting their children in the Philippines and no longer provide any form of support.
[1] This problem is a consequence of sex tourism in the Philippines by Korean men, specifically within areas such as Angeles City.
[1] In response, South Korean NGOs such as the Daejeon Migrant Workers Support Center, alongside locally established NGOs like the Kopino Children Center, have begun to establish branch offices in the Philippines to provide social services to Kopino children and their mothers.
[10] According to a 2016 investigative report by The Sungkyun Times, one of the main causal factors of the Kopino phenomenon is Korean men, 90% of whom were students in their twenties, deceiving Filipino women about their intentions to have a future together.
He also created a civic group, called We Love Kopino, through which Filipina mothers could submit pictures of the absentee fathers.
[13] In the 2014 KBS1 drama You Are the Only One, a Kopino known as Verillio Lee Nam-soon (portrayed by Kim Min-kyo) arrives in Seoul from Iloilo in search of his Korean birth father.